The kids may be off right now for summer vacation.
However, Guilford County government leaders and Guilford County Schools officials are still hard at work trying to figure out the best way to spend $2 billion in money for school construction and renovations that county voters approved over the last three years.
To that end, the commissioners and Board of Education Joint Capital/Facilities Committee is meeting on Wednesday, July 26 at 4 p.m. to discuss the best way to move forward on a number of proposed projects.
The Guilford County school board gets to decide how that money is spent, however, the Board of Commissioners approves a recommended project, and an amount for it, before turning over the money that it usually holds until the schools need to spend it.
The July 26 meeting will be held in the Board Room of the Guilford County Schools Administrative Offices at 712 N. Eugene St. in Greensboro.
The official stated purpose of the meeting is to “discuss deferred maintenance, provide updates on the Capital Improvement Program and the Long-Range Master Plan, and review the Bond Program Dashboards and Cash Flow Model Performance & Debt Planning.”
School officials and the county commissioners just went through a little bit of a rocky patch this spring when it looked like the county might not give the schools any additional money for operating expenses for fiscal 2023-2024 over what the schools got last year.
Guilford County Manager Mike Halford, in fact, recommended that the schools get zero new dollars for the current fiscal year that began on July 1.
In the end, however, the school-friendly Board of Commissioners added $15 million in school operating funds before adopting a new budget. That seemed to appease school officials, who had asked for $101 million in new money this time around, so perhaps the July 26 discussion – the first joint meeting since the county budget was adopted – will be very congenial.
It will be interesting to observe this cluster—- and see the waste, poor decisions and kickbacks to all involved. The students will of course get little or no benefit. Throw the 2 billion dollars at the “educational system” but betting test scores stay the same or maybe even worse. You voted them in, now observe and see if your expectations will be met.
You should probably move being republicans will never have power here again! If you don’t live here worry about your side of the county line it’s not doing much better
You could start with maintaining existing property. Our house is nearly 60 years old, we take care of it.
Two billion simoleons! Will the children be reading better in the foreseeable future?
Amen to that! Our place is 89 years old. Things have to be maintained to last. The school board doesn’t care about children or education. They will build some modern monstrosity with a fancy plaque at the entrance that simply says “look at me.” Let’s be sure to teach the kids to be racists by forcing MWBE considerations on the contractors. Let’s exclude people by using the words diversity & inclusion. Let’s embarrass & disrespect our ancestors by naming the buildings after some purple haired trans freaks. Anything we can to avoid teaching the 3 R’s. We have college graduates who cannot read & write at a 10th grade level. How about spending the money on actual education, or give it back.
Not a bit.
No doubt that there will be portions of this money that end up going to the Marxist educational bureaucracy. I agree with the County Manager…no new school spending. How much money will ever be enough? What did they want $101 million for? Is $2 billion not enough? Heck…lets just given them $2 trillion.
Can’t wait to see what racist bullsh$$ skip pulls this time